Former decathlete, shuttler to choose desk tennis staff for CWG

Published:Mar 9, 202418:38
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Former decathlete, shuttler to choose desk tennis staff for CWG

India’s desk tennis staff for the 2022 Commonwealth Video games shall be picked on Monday by a range committee assembly that shall be headed by a former decathlete and noticed by a former badminton participant.

If it seems opposite to motive/frequent sense or completely absurd, certainly it's.

Delhi-based former decathlete Surinder Dev Mudgil is the chairman and ex-shuttler Anup Narang, the observer of the Desk Tennis Federation of India’s new choice committee that meets to decide on the Indian staff for the upcoming Commonwealth Video games on Monday. Mudgil can be one of many three members of the Delhi Excessive Courtroom-appointed Committee of Directors (CoA) -- the others are Chief Justice (retd.) Geeta Mittal and advocate Chetan Mittal--that took over cost from the suspended office-bearers of the TTFI on February 18. The truth is, Mudgil can be the Chairman of the junior choice committee.

For perspective the equal of Monday’s assembly can be if a decathlete chairing the Board of Management for Cricket in India (BCCI) choice assembly. Now, think about a former secretary of the Badminton Affiliation of India attending this assembly as an Observer.

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Curiously, Narang was a substitute for the three-time Nationwide champion Manjit Dua, who felt humiliated when CoA supplied him the publish of an “Observer” within the new choice committee. The Arjuna Awardee give up as a selector and Chief Nationwide coach.

Very like within the BCCI, the CoA’s choice committee contains former gamers, most of them virtually forgotten. For years, these members have, admittedly, not saved in contact with or adopted present gamers sufficient to pick the Nationwide staff.

For the file, former gamers S. Ramaswamy, N. R. Indu, Rajat Kathuria and Archana Viswanath got here into the committee that beforehand included Arjuna Awardees Manjit Dua, Mantu Ghosh and Dronacharya Awardee Sandeep Gupta.

Battle of curiosity

Throughout the listening to of the case filed in opposition to the TTFI by the 2018 Commonwealth Video games gold medallist Manika Batra, the Courtroom took a severe view of the coach, on this case Soumyadeep Roy, operating a non-public academy and accompanying the Nationwide staff. Additional, when the Courtroom learnt that Roy’s trainee Sutirtha Mukherjee was a part of the identical staff, it was satisfied that there was a transparent case of ‘battle of curiosity.’

On February 11, 2022, the Courtroom made a telling remark in its judgement. “An individual appointed because the Nationwide coach by such a federation can't and ought to not be permitted to concurrently run his private academy. A battle of this nature must be prevented. Our sportspersons certainly deserve higher.”

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Within the gentle of this clear-cut directive, the CoA’s resolution to call famous coach S. Raman as coach/supervisor of the Indian groups to Commonwealth Video games has come underneath severe scrutiny. Raman runs the Chennai-based Raman TT Excessive Efficiency Centre the place he coaches G. Sathiyan, a constant member of the Indian staff for a few years now.

Because of this, the CoA’s resolution seems in direct battle with the above remark of the Courtroom.

Raman’s case shouldn't be an aberration. In 100 days after taking on, the CoA has despatched a number of coaches with gamers for varied age-group occasions and most of those accompanying coaches both personal Academies, or provide non-public teaching. As an example, within the latest previous, R. Rajesh, Anshul Garg, A. Radhika are amongst those that, regardless of proudly owning Academies, have accompanied chosen Indian gamers for abroad age-group competitions.


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